I could fully empathise with the author on many of the issues. Just a few counter-points:
1. Power cuts: While scheduled power shedding is loathesome, this safeguard IS necessary in India and may not be so in US, because the power lines are overhead in India, whereas they are underground in US!! Simple!
2. Discrimination against white tourists: Please note this is not against 'White' tourists but any international tourists!! I have personally encountered a 'higher entry fee' for foreign tourists in Malaysia, Trinidad (stay by foreign tourists in ASA Wright Nature centre is 6 times more expensive!) etc. And I dont see this as 'discrimination'!! The answer here is, the rates 'foreign' tourists pay is much less than the entry fee that they pay in other parts of the world!! The rates domestic tourists pay is pittance, subsidised by govt. and foreign tourists!!
3. Paranoia abt maps: Every country that has territorial dispute is finicky abt maps - check out China (and how they blackmailed volkswagon for publishing a map that did not show tibet as part of China, in a casual ad!), Pakistan, etc.! And to my knowledge, no govt. restriction on maps which are not disputed territories
